An 8-year-old girl has committed suicide by hanging herself.
The 8-year-old girl, who resided together with her parents and 4 siblings in Osaka prefecture, was discovered by her 27-year-old mother on her return from work.
She had hanged herself by tying a towel around her neck and to a 1.8m high clothes rack on their apartment’s veranda, using a folding chair to reach the rack and as a platform from which to drop herself.
Her 29-year-old father immediately summoned emergency services, but the girl was later pronounced dead.
She is said to have been alone at home whilst her mother took other siblings to a nursery.
No note or other indication of why she chose to take her own life has been found.
Her parents previously complained to her school that somebody had vandalised her schoolbooks, writing her name and “die” on a total of 12 of them. At the time the girl took 8 days off school, but later returned.
The mother of one of her friends described her as “a polite little girl” and claims she was subject to harassment but seemed unaffected, whilst a local woman who knew the girl as “really cute” reports the girl had been the victim of physical abuse at the hands of classmates.
The school principal, pictured, feigns ignorance and denies any connection between the incident and the suicide, as might be expected:
“Some of the graffiti resembled her own handwriting, but we were unable to determine who wrote it. We don’t think her suicide was related to the graffiti. It’s truly regrettable that she lost her life like this.”
The local board of education backs the headteacher:
“Her condition at the time was stable – we consider the chance of the suicide being connected to bullying to be low.”
There is some suspicion the school is attempting to evade responsibility so they do not have to pay any compensation in the event their handling of the bullying turns out to be inadequate, as seems to be the case.
Police are treating the investigation as that of a suicide.
Suicide is the leading cause of death for young people in Japan, but elementary schooler suicides are exceedingly rare – since 1998 the less than 5 per year have been reported. In 2008 no incidents at all were recorded.
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She doesn't want to live anymore so she take her own life? She must be mentally wounded and totally depressed to suicide.
That is the common definition of "suicide," yes.
Artefact where'd you get this? We had a recent(around a few months back) case of suicide by a student at our school cause of bullying, he was graduating too. I'm sort of interested in correcting her statement of
"we consider the chance of the suicide being connected to bullying to be low.”
If you mean the source, it has been covered extensively by all the major networks in Japan so take your pick.
The fact that she has been bullied leaves no place for arguments of her possible cause of death.
Anybody has has been through this would know.
it was autoerotic asphyxiation.
by an 8-year-old?
Are you telling me that you never orgasmed before 8? I hear it's even easier for girls to climax young.
...Making a joke about eight year old girls committing suicide being autoerotic asphyxiation. More new lows everyday! (Worse lows have been reached, of course, but you know. Eh.)
find the perpetrator, hang her and her parents.
Suicidal ideation can be conceptualized by a brain more mature than an 8 year old's. Its just not possible for a child of that age to be intellectually advanced to come up with the notion of suicide, so the best angle would still be the graffiti on her books that suggests she dies. If the school is trying to evade responsiblity for thus and the police are helping them, then I've lost faith in japan's legal system.
+who the hell in their right minds would leave a child unattended?
such a waste of life....
@Darkrockslizer: The fact that she has been bullied leaves no place for arguments of her possible cause of death.
Anybody has has been through this would know.
/I was bullied in primary school for years, until I grow a pair of balls and kicked some bastards in the face.
true
Yeah. Blame bullies. Bullying is a problem everywhere. It's not just in Japan. EVERYWHERE has problems exactly like these. Unfortunately, some kids just can't handle it. It's best if people take into account bullying as a more serious threat and make it downright fashionable to smash bullying where it starts.
@Carrot_Glace
Yeah, well, lucky you and those of us who grew a pair. Sadly, that little girl didn't make it that far. Bullying prospers because of negligence on the part of teachers and parents who don't pay attention to their bullying spawns, and those of the victim who are sometimes clueless about what their kids go through.
@TehBoringOne
Yes, you are totally right...
Bullies are no more than stupid kids, the problem is supporting the bullied one.
In my case, the teacher supported the bullies (yeah, crazy, right?) so I was alone in school. My mother saw me depressed, so asked me what was going on. After knowing the source of the problem, she told me "can you give them some of their own medicine?" I: "yes, I will" she: "so go kick some faces". "I would, but, what about the teacher? she'll punish me" "That's not your problem, that's mine" she answered. So I punch them in front of the teacher, who went hysterical right there. And my mother finished the matter putting the teacher in her (fucking) place.
The moral of my little story is that someone have to support you passing through this events. Sadly, this poor girl was completely alone.
Carrot I can totally understand you. My mother actually stopped me from punching since I'd kill whoever I started hitting. Yes, it reached such point. My mother tried to speak with the school direction for over a month and nothing was done. Of course, you know angry moms can move mountains....
@TehBoringOne
It's part of the feminisation of boys today by modern society. 50 years ago if you were getting bullied, most fathers would likely have supported kicking them in the teeth. Today though, if you get pulled into a fight and do anything other than curl up into a ball and die, you're found to be at fault. I honestly don't know how I made it out alive.
I think this behavior has a lot to do with "respect the others" and "if you are insulted, don't sink to their level". When I was bullied in elementary school, I was programmed by the teachers there to NOT respond to bullying. I ended up received more of it. In junior high, there came a moment in which I just snapped and hurt several of the bullies before being beaten by a larger bully who didn't leave unscathed anyways. He still bears the scars I left him with my teeth and nails as a reminder. When my father found out, he supported me. My mother made a fuss scolding me and my friends were celebrating.
Bottomline is, we are taught and hardwired to be nice (most of the ones that got bullied) by a society of negligent adults who don't want to put up with conflicts. When we snap, depending on the time and our mental stability or lack of it, many things can happen, ranging from talking back to murder in the most extreme cases.
Well, if the loli was alone, guess she didn't get some lovin'.....
joke aside, that's basically the truth in a nutshell - single friend or lover can go a long way (at least at that age). Without one or the other that I had at times, I would have really done that too - came to be about 2 months away from it(or well, playing Chao...), and got the latter one before going to school to give me the lovin'.
And on parents: They've always been there, and while they can help they're still just parents.
poor loli....
the world weeps for the loss of a loli...
lol, seems Japans large suicide rate isn't just limited to adults
Pics or dindn't happen. Want to see the corpse and the tonge out is mouth ^_^
Anon 02:58, I want to see you dead.
>ctrl+f "poor loli" without looking at the comments first
Oh hey.
I'm not surprised the school board is playing dumb. They always want to avoid responsibility(paying).
School boards try to avoid paying a dime no matter what modern country you're in.
YET!...Artfact had a anime pic for this story.
There's a few cases in America every year that some little kid shot or stabbed another kid or beat to death. It's rare when kids kill themselves. I feel sorry for the parents.
Now those "Bullies" can spend their lives with that 'stigma' of forcing a girl to die.
don't worry , they wont feel bad , the one thing i have realized is that most kids that are bullys are sociopaths at that age and will most likely just forget about it , that's how kids were when i was bullied
Only if they grow a conscience.
>will most likely just forget about it
I didn't forget. Did you?
I'm positive this suicide was just caused by the bad economy as she was worried of her future employment prospects in the declining economic situation.
Good job pointing it out Capt. Obvious.
SHES FUCKING EIGHT YEARS OLD
8... What a sad World this is
Just a question. If the mother was the one that found her, why was it the father that summoned emergency services? Did the mother call the father first?
And I'm just curious, how many 8 year olds know the knot used for hanging oneself? It's not something you learn at school, and any knot won't work.
I'm pretty sure that knot you get when failing to tie your shoelaces properly will also suffice for throttling yourself.
It's pretty easy to tie a slipknot and even a regular running knot or even a loop will strangle you. The hangman's noose is actually somewhat decorative to its function.
@ Anonymous 01:46 20/08/2010
The hangman's noose isn't really decorative, the knots add friction to the slip knot and prevent it from moving. The knot is then usually placed behind the left ear and when someone drops the full length of the rope it is supposed to break the neck of the condemned, thus killing them instantly.
I guess all Japanese elementary schools offer shibari classes since it's something like their national pasttime.
01:46
People who hang themselves don't usually die from strangulation, but rather because their neck breaks when they fall.
I call bullshit on this. Unless they have a proper noose. Everything I heard suggests that you need a pretty stout fucking noose(like those thick ass ropes they used for typical execution) and a decent hard knot on it.
Anything else would likely just strangle you, I'm fairly sure most, or at least half of hanging suicides are likely death by the strangulation and not their damn neck breaking.
Considering that a child is much lighter than an adult I'd say even asphyxia could be the case here. Unfortunately...
I thought people that hang themselves usually die from asphyxiation but people who are hanged die from breaking their neck.
Yes, official hangings are about neck snap but suicides usually just do it in a way that they can't escape while they asphixiate. And its only recently that official hangings have become fairly accurate at neck snaps without decapitation due to the work of US hangmen in the 1800s, the ones they used to do in London were almost all strangulation, it's only with the correctly sized and weighted rope with correct length and number of loops in noose knot that it works correctly, according to weight of victim.
The girl in this case died from asphyxiation.
I think the comments about the difference between suicidal hangings and formal execution hangings are correct - you can hang yourself with a belt and a doorknob, a sophisticated knot and a high spot aren't at all necessary.
Death the Kid must have taken her for himself because she was 8 - perfectly symetric.
Aye. One less loli in this world. This is a very sad loss.
no seriously. Idid believe that many kids can easily submit to the temptation of suicide, but I never thought they had the gut to actually fullfill it. At least not at that age.
How's the bully rate in Japan by the way?
I don't think there are any official 'bullying rates', due to the difficulty of acquiring reliable data.
Even if anonymous surveys are conducted, some people won't even acknowledge the fact that they're being bullied, while others will overreact because of preexisting mental conditions.
If her teacher was Onizuka... this would never have happened...
Damn...What drove her to end her life..?
What is loneliness..? Neglect..? Bullying..?
Well, I hope she gets reincarnated with better benefits than this...It's bloody sad to hear something like this...
Well, bullying is a good example of mental abuse. Some people crack under that kind of stress. We can speculate as to her mental state and background, but it would serve no purpose.
Since endless 8 ,this is the first time I'm saying out loud "Fuck you Haruhi"
Now I'm seeing 8s all over this article.
look at the face of the Mother. She killed her.
"The school principal, pictured..."
That's not the girl's mom.
terrible, that's all that can be said.
I'm not appreciating the school's response tbh. Then again I guess they're concerned with crowd control, or some domino effect with the rest of the kids feelin guilty or some crazy shit
I don't even see a pic of her mother D:
On a side note, she could have just called me :<
you are sick and disgusting!
i love you!
take my babies!
Anontard is retarded. Thats the principal. Learn to read.
As a side note, if the little girls own hand writing was actually found to have written on her own stuff, saying die, etc, then I would thing that should be MORE FUCKING CAUSE FOR ALARM. Either she clearly has issues, or she was forced to write that by the children bullying her. Why in gods name would people think its ok or normal for a little girl to deface her own stuff with the word die? Were the children who did that supposedly even talked to?
It wouldn't surprise me if she had been forced by classmates to write those things on her own stuff; it's another way to bully a person. So yeah I call bullshit with these fucking school.
Another virgin wasted =/
I need to agree. The word "Die" being scribbled on the bullied victim's belongings cases have already been repeatedly used in most movies, dramas and stuff (hell, it even appeared in GTO) that it's too significant to tell those stuff are based on and actually happened in real life.. Seriously, how can the adults were just like:
Papa: Is that Miki-chan's exercise book?
Mama: Honey, look! Miki-chan wrote her first kanji!
Papa: Oh, what does it say?
Mama: It says "Die, Miki, Die!"
Papa: Awww.. How cute!
Principal: By this we concluded that graffiti have nothing to do with the suicide.
This article is terrifying.
Wow..
8 years old and she offs herself.. That's damn sad..
I thought kids were pretty tough. They get depressed but they won't off themselves. They're still curious.. Seems like a case of bad influence..
It wouldn't surprise me if he/she hits puberty and goes all emo. By that time you'd be tired of your daily monotonous view of life.
you live in small apartments with your parents and 4 siblings , who wouldn't want to take their life ?
Jesus christ, that picture is like some horror movie creature..
Just a reminder to all you weebo's that think Japanese girls are the best, they start to look like that around 30+...
Bullying is serious. I've suffered with it as I usually had high grades without much effort or studying. For some weird reason my reaction was going to be punching the first idiot that tried making fun of me till complete and irreversible death but my mother prevented a tragedy and a criminal procedure against me because she noticed something was wrong.
While I might be a less common case (most bullied teens get depressed instead of getting violent), bullying is terribly serious since the other kids tend to ignore what is happening or taking the bully's side because helping can make you the next target. If a child/teen actually says something about being bullied then the issue has already reached a critical point and it has to be solved asap. Unfortunately, parents these days need to work a lot to survive and support their kids so sometimes they can't give enough attention to all of their offspring. No wonder birth rates are declining rapidly.
The school may deny it but it's an 8-yr-old death they'll carry for the rest of their lives.
yes...